Tag: Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since...
Michael O'Bryan, Drexel University and Alicia Atkinson, Drexel University
In Philadelphia, the poorest big city in the U.S., the...
Disasters like bridge collapses put transportation agencies’ emergency plans to the test
Lee D. Han, University of Tennessee
A container ship rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore around...
Philadelphia bans supervised injection sites – evidence suggests keeping drug users...
Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University; Jannet van der Veen, Drexel University; Synøve Nygaard Andersen, University of Oslo, and Tony Joakim Ananiassen Sandset, University...
For Black cowboys – from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas –...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
Photographer Ron Tarver grew up in Fort Gibson, a small town in Oklahoma where horses,...
Repatriating the archives: Lumbee scholars find their people and bring them...
Ashley Minner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Jessica R. Locklear, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Following World War II, thousands of Lumbee...
‘Joker’ fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media...
Laura M. Holzman, IUPUI
New York’s newest tourist attraction isn’t a museum, park or art installation.
It’s a stairway.
Sandwiched between apartment buildings in the Bronx, it’s...
What lies beneath: To manage toxic contamination in cities, study their...
James R. Elliott, Rice University and Scott Frickel, Brown University
Philadelphia’s hip Northern Liberties community is an old working-class neighborhood that has become a model...
Thomas Eakins: Brilliant painter, gifted photographer … sexual predator?
Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University
The recent toppling of a string of powerful figures for sexual abuse and harassment raises the question of how...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
